Kenya, China ponder over inking mutual agreement to fight corruption

China and Kenya plan to sign a mutual legal assistance agreement in order to combat corruption, the country's anti-graft watchdog said on March 25.

Twalib Mbarak, Chief Executive Officer of Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission told Xinhua in Nairobi that Kenya has already signed the agreement and has submitted the deal to the Chinese government for them to sign.

"The mutual legal assistance agreement will help to combat economic crimes by enabling cooperation between Kenya and Chinese investigative agencies to trace and recover proceeds of crime that are transferred between the two nations," Twalib Mbarak opined.

He said that bilateral legal agreements are required because with increasing globalization, corruption has now become a significant transnational crime that requires countries to conduct investigations in foreign countries. He noted that increasing Sino-Kenya ties has provided greater opportunities for criminal networks to take advantage of ease of flow of funds between the two countries, as reported by Xinhua.

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